Objective: We have developed a new technique for accessing the mitral valve through the left anterior minithoracotomy. This approach has been used in patients requiring both mitral valve surgery and coronary artery bypass grafting.
Methods: From October 2020 to September 2022, we performed 24 concomitant mitral valve procedures and coronary artery bypass grafting through the left anterior minithoracotomy.
Interdiscip Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
January 2024
Objectives: We have developed a novel technique for accessing the aortic valve (AoV) through the left anterior minithoracotomy (LAmT). This approach has been used in patients requiring both AoV surgery and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
Methods: From April 2023 to July 2023, we performed 6 concomitant AoV procedures and CABG through the LAmT.
Objectives: Our goal was to describe the technique for and evaluate the results of the isolated coronary artery bypass grafting or combined grafting procedures with mitral valve repair/replacement and/or left ventricle aneurysm repair performed through a single left anterior minithoracotomy.
Methods: Perioperative data of all patients who required isolated or combined coronary grafting from July 2017 to December 2021 were observed. The focus was on 560 patients who underwent isolated or combined multivessel coronary bypass using the "Total Coronary Revascularization via left Anterior Thoracotomy" technique.
Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg
November 2022
We present a technique for multivessel minimally invasive coronary revascularization combined with mitral valve replacement through a left anterior minithoracotomy. This newly developed technique is unique because it allows us to intervene and repair or replacement the mitral valve with a conventional surgical technique through a limited left anterior approach. The minimally invasive approaches for combined cardiac surgical procedures are being increasingly investigated and are of special interest to cardiac surgeons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRight axillary transverse minithoracotomy is not conventionally used for ventricular septal defect (VSD) repair because of complicated VSD exposure and the need for a temporary tricuspid valve leaflet detachment to facilitate VSD exposure. Recently, our team developed a new, not previously described surgical maneuver that markedly facilitates perimembranous VSD exposure without any need for tricuspid valve leaflet detachment. The above-mentioned VSD exposure maneuver was used in 21 patients with a median age of 5 months (range, 1.
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March 2021
To present the technique and to evaluate the outcomes of the multivessel minimally invasive coronary revascularization through the left anterior thoracotomy. From July 2017 to March 2019 in 229 consecutive patients with isolated multivessel coronary artery disease we performed complete coronary revascularization through the left anterior minithoracotomy (6-8 cm skin incision). In 47 of them we performed multiarterial revascularization using left internal mammary artery and T-shunt with left radial artery or right internal mammary artery.
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